Word: heed
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...life, I had been puzzled by this oxymoronic etymology, but had paid it little heed, (ignoring my grammar teacher, laughing off the oft-repeated high school jokes spawned by class rivalry and scorning the well-meaning [and well-paid] SAT instructors) until I, too, attained second-year status at Harvard...
Clinton's national security advisers first learned of the Iraqi buildup from spy-satellite photos. Washington immediately sent a blunt message to Iraqi officials at the U.N., saying it would be a "serious mistake" to move against the Kurds, but Saddam Hussein did not heed the warning. On Friday night Tariq Aziz, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, announced that a "limited military operation" had been undertaken in response to an appeal from the K.D.P. State Department officials confirmed that in some parts of the city, K.D.P. soldiers fought alongside Iraqi forces, and K.D.P. radio broadcasts also told people to turn...
...decades where the political agenda has been mainly concerned with adjudicating the roles of market and government without addressing the loss of community and the erosion of civic life. The presidential candidates would be wise to pay attention to these needs regardless of their party inclination. They should heed the call of well-meaning individuals like former U.S. senator Bill Bradley, who called for a politics that focused more on the institution of civil society. Neither the market nor government is "equipped to solve America's central problems, which are the deterioration of our civil society and the need...
...opportunity vs. peril, a plunge into a risky future or an overhasty abandoning of the familiar, go-it-alone past. Was it wise to put faith in the dream of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Labor leader Shimon Peres, who promised a New Middle East crafted of compromise, or to heed the warnings of Netanyahu, who spoke the word fear 11 times in the candidates' 30-min. debate to remind voters that Israel must first defeat the terror still stalking their streets? Could peace treaties with existential enemies protect Jews from the dangers of sacrificing territory? Was this the moment...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and other administrators should pay greater heed to student concerns as outlined by newly-elected Undergraduate Council President Robert M. Hyman '98-'97 and the council. We continue to be concerned about the administration's lack of response to student opinions. This concern has only been exacerbated by President Neil L. Rudenstine's comment a week before the elections that he didn't know that the student council's leaders were about to be popularly elected...